It goes without saying that now is not the right time to discuss America's bizarre devotion to lethal weapons, just as it's never the right time to discuss climate science ...
Naturally the pond would never want to offend the sensibilities and sensitivities of a Scott Pruitt, so it's a matter of considerable regret that once again the arm breaker should decide to set the offensive pace in the Daily Terror ...
Someone goes against the herd? Finally?
As for the herd buster himself, the pond invites anyone interested to do a google on David Leyonhjelm guns ... though there will be variations according to the dictates of the logarithms ...with this what the pond scored ...
Once again the arm breaker scores ...
And now to a more socially useful topic ... featuring as usual for a Tuesday, the always socially involved and socially uplifting Caterists ...
Oh indeed, indeed, and before we get going, the pond would like to deplore the back lane culture rampant in Newtown and Camperdown ...
You see, put almost anything out in the back lane, and some kind soul will walk away with it. There are limits of course - put an old CRT in the lane and someone will probably limit themselves to hacking off the power cord - but some perverse souls see this recycling as a boon and a gift ...
Oh they've got street libraries and all sorts of street goods beckoning the pond to clutter its yard with recycled nonsense ...
Fortunately there's always the baleful glare of the disdainful Caterist to put this sort of recycling and repurposing and reusing in its correct wretched light ... though it was unfortunate that the google, in its wisdom, decided to couple the Caterist column with a throwaway headline ...
Sheesh, it's tough when even a juxtaposing google sends you up shitless.
Now along with the throwaway line, let's face it, the Caterist always has an angle, and it's a matter of playing detective and sleuthing out what's really troubling the wretched man ...
Some say this is a job for a psychiatrist, but most shrinks the pond knows shrink from tangling with a man so leaden, dull and tedious that even a hint of analysis puts the mind at risk ...
First up, the pond would like to congratulate Sturt Krygsman for a most excellent graphic to accompany the story...
The pond would have preferred an even richer illustration of the potent benefits of garbage ...
Indeed, indeed, and truth to tell, it's inordinately expensive to remove garbage, let alone recycle it, and the pond looks forward to the next Caterist column on the benefits and virtues of leaving garbage in situ ...
But now we must return to the hunt for the real subject of the Caterist wrath ... will it become clear in the next gobbet?
Ah, there it is ... why didn't he just say?
The pond should have guessed. It goes without saying that the Caterists would be agitated about the banning of plastic bags in supermarkets.
It's simply too much for the Caterist to bear to have to carry bags to shop, as we did in the old days when we could get the crispy bacon so loved before the war ...
They're now so exotic you can find examples like this in museums ... and if Trove ever gets working again (thanks Malware for funding the digitisation of Australian memories - hollow ironic bitter laugh follows), there are many more stories about ye old time shopping baskets to explore ...
It was only the other day that the pond got to nattering about the arcane culture of cane-woven shopping bags, now as exotic and as arcane as men wearing hats ...
The important thing to bear in mind is that conservatives simply can't abide any fond memories of the way things once were ... it reminds them of Streisand singing and they're reduced to inconsolable sobbing ...
Now the pond is inordinately grateful that the Caterist asked that question:
Surely they can find simpler ways of throwing away our money?
Indeed they can ...
What a splendid vision. Money for the Caterists, and mountains of garbage in mountains of mines ...
And so to the Pope of the day, and as we're speaking of people on easy street, this one really resonates, with more resonating Pope here ...
But that's enough of the human capacity for vileness this day ...
Goosebumps Cater: "... container deposit legislation, pioneered in SA (where else ?)"
ReplyDeleteYeah well, trust a johnny-cum-lately ignorant pom not to have a clue about Aussie history. SA may well be pioneering the reintroduction of container deposits, but I used to collect soft drink bottles in my youth and hand 'em in at the milk bar for the sixpence 'deposit refund'. I can even remember collecting beer bottles now and then for sale to the ambulatory "bottle-ohs" who used to roam the suburban streets. So it goes.
But otherwise, Goosey might just have a point or three. In the usual careless way of such things in Ockerland, recycling has never actually been established and operated appropriately. Like Topsy, it "just grewed" and equally it will just die. Though I wonder if somehow lithium will ever be added to aluminium as a worthwhile 'recyclable'. Though there's likely megatonnes of it dissolved in sea-water if we can ever extract it economically. Lots of gold, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju_2NuK5O-E
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
DeleteDont agree with the cater very often but unfortunately he is more or less correct on this one. Humankind altogether is becoming overwhelmed by our mountains of garbage and toxic wastes especially as more and more people participate in the high consumption Western life style.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we could duplicate the Italian method of garbage disposal,including the disposal of toxic chemicals - it is controlled by the Mafia.